Only Lovers Left Alive (Shillington Education) designed by Tara Cosgrave-Perry

The Girls (Shillington Education) designed by Molly Keene

Emerging designer of the year

Akiko Chan

Vanessa Masci.

In addition to these awards, ABDA will also present the ‘designers’ choice’ award for best designed children’s YA cover. This is the first year that awards for children’s illustrated nonfiction and student design are to be presented, while the tertiary education book award will not be presented this year due to ‘exceptionally low entries’.

The winners of the awards were due to be announced at a ceremony on 22 May, but the awards night has been postponed due to Covid-19. They will now be announced at an awards celebration at a yet to be announced date.

This is the sixth year that the awards have been run by ABDA, which took over the responsibility of running the awards from the Australian Publishers Association. For more information, visit the ABDA website.